Listing 1 - 10 of 13 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
我写了一位普通中国女性一生的故事, 写了我们一家人如何像水中的浮木般挣扎求生, 写了中南腹地那些乡间人物的生生死死. 我知道自己写出的故事如同一滴水, 最终将汇入人类历史的长河.
Choose an application
Choose an application
Choose an application
From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.
Islands --- Islands. --- Mothers and daughters --- Mothers and daughters. --- Mères et filles --- Îles
Choose an application
This text is a comprehensive account of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and its efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation's past. It argues that, especially prior to World War II, the DAR's conservative white middle-class members played a vital role in private citizens' efforts to both bolster patriotism and guard the nation's gendered and racial boundaries through commemorative practices.
Women --- History. --- Daughters of the American Revolution --- History --- United States --- Societies, etc. --- D.A.R. --- DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) --- Daughters of American Revolution --- Ethnikē Hetaireia tōn Thygaterōn tēs Amerikanikēs Epanaśtaseōs --- Národní Jednota Dcer Amerikanské Revoluce --- Národní Jednota Dcer Americké Revoluce --- National Daughters of the American Revolution --- National Society Daughters of American Revolution --- National Society Daughters of the American Revolution --- National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution --- Nat︠s︡ionalʹnoe obshchestvo dochereĭ amerikanskoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii --- N.S.D.A.R. --- NSDAR --- Society, Daughters of the American Revolution --- Stowarzyszenie Narodowe Córek Rewolucji Amerykańskiej --- טעכטער פון דער אמעריקאנער רעװאלוציאן --- טעכטער פון דער אמעריקאנער רעװאלוציע --- דאטהערס אװ די אמעריקאן רעװאלושאן
Choose an application
Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. 18 years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge.
Separation (Psychology) --- Fathers and daughters --- Runaway husbands --- Men --- Atonement --- Mayors --- Wessex (England) --- Alcaldes --- Municipal officials and employees --- Corregidors --- Social conditions
Choose an application
"FILLE, nom féminin 1. Personne de sexe féminin considérée par rapport à son père, à sa mère. 2. Enfant de sexe féminin. 3. (Vieilli.) Femme non mariée. 4. Prostituée. Laurence Barraqué grandit avec sa sœur dans les années 1960 à Rouen. "Vous avez des enfants ? demande-t-on à son père. Non, j’ai deux filles", répond-il. Naître garçon aurait sans doute facilité les choses. Un garçon, c’est toujours mieux qu’une garce. Puis Laurence devient mère dans les années 1990. Être une fille, avoir une fille : comment faire ? Que transmettre ? L'écriture de Camille Laurens atteint ici une maîtrise exceptionnelle qui restitue les mouvements intimes au sein des mutations sociales et met en lumière l’importance des mots dans la construction d'une vie."
Feminism --- Gender identity --- Fathers and daughters --- Domination --- Identité sexuelle --- Féminisme --- Pères et filles --- Identité sexuelle --- Féminisme --- Pères et filles
Choose an application
Women (Jewish law) --- Adultery (Jewish law) --- Ordeal (Jewish law) --- Inheritance and succession (Jewish law) --- Daughters of Zelophehad (Biblical figures) --- Vows --- Vows (Jewish law) --- Bible. --- Mishnah. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Choose an application
Winner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books - Caregiving category ESS Public Sociology Award Recommended Book in Domestic Violence by DomesticShelters.org How do you go about caregiving for an ill and elderly parent with a lifelong history of abuse and control, intertwined with expressions of intense love and adoration? How do you reconcile the resulting ambivalence, fear, and anger? Welcome to Wherever We Are is a meditation on what we hold onto, what we let go of, how we remember others and ultimately how we’re remembered. Deborah Cohan shares her story of caring for her father, a man who was simultaneously loud, gentle, loving and cruel and whose brilliant career as an advertising executive included creating slogans like “Hey, how ‘bout a nice Hawaiian punch?” Wrestling with emotional extremes that characterize abusive relationships, Cohan shows how she navigated life with a man who was at once generous and affectionate, creating magical coat pockets filled with chocolate kisses when she was a little girl, yet who was also prone to searing, vicious remarks like “You’d make my life easier if you’d commit suicide.” In this gripping memoir, Cohan tells her unique personal story while also weaving in her expertise as a sociologist and domestic abuse counselor to address broader questions related to marriage, violence, divorce, only children, intimacy and loss. A story most of us can relate to as we reckon with past and future choices against the backdrop of complicated family dynamics, Welcome to Wherever We Are is about how we might come to live our own lives better amidst unpredictable changes through grief and healing. Questions for Discussion (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/11140346/Cohan_Discussion.docx)
Parent and adult child --- Adult child abuse victims --- Fathers and daughters --- Adult children of aging parents --- Aging parents --- Care --- Cohan, Deborah J.
Choose an application
Mrs Gaskell's first novel, 'Mary Barton' portrays city life in the hungry forties of the 19th century. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell, and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Fathers and daughters --- Working class women --- Textile industry --- Trials (Murder) --- Poor families --- Labor unions --- Manchester (England) --- Working class --- Eighteen forties --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- 1840s --- 40s (Nineteenth century decade) --- Forties (Nineteenth century decade) --- Nineteenth century --- Employment --- Manchester, Eng. --- Manchʻēsdr (England) --- Manchester (Greater Manchester) --- City and Borough of Manchester (England) --- Social conditions
Listing 1 - 10 of 13 | << page >> |
Sort by
|